Label.



A. MILBURN.

LABEL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.18,1913. RENEWED MAY 22.1915.

1,172,157. Patented 1 61). 15,1916.

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LABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. is, rare.

Application filed January 18, 1913, Serial No. 742,829. Renewed May 22, 1915. Serial No. 29,925;

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ADA MILBURN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Labels, of which the following is a specification.

.This invention relates to labels and particularly to those intended for use upon poison bottles or packages and has for an object to provide a label with an indicating or warning portion to contain an abrasive, a roughened surface or the like which will be exposed in such manner upon the bottle or package that will cause ones fingers to contact therewith when handling the bottle in the dark, thereby presenting a warning that will indicate that the bottle or package contains a dangerous drug and further the provision of a protecting portion serving to conceal the abrasive before the label is applied to the bottle.

In the drawing forming a portion of this application and in which like letters of reference indicate siinilar parts in the several views :Figure 1 is a perspective view showsecured to the bottle or package as pre-,

ing the application of the label to a bottle. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the label. Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 2. r

The label 9 is provided with a lower depending portion 10 and an upper portion 11, the latter being coated on its rear surface with an adhesive'l2 while the portion 10 is coated in a similar manner on its rear side by an adhesive 13 whereby the label may be viously described. The front surface of the depending portion 10 of the label is coated.

with an adhesive 1% and secured to the adhesive is sand or like abrasive material 15. The portion 11 is weakened or scored at 16 and provided with an integral guard 17 that is adapted to be extended over the roughened surface 15 of the label so as to facilitate the application of the label to the bottle or package and to prevent the fingers of the oneapplying the label from being unnecessarily harmed. After the label is properly attached to the bottle or package the guard portion 17 is torn on the scored line 16 whereby to expose the roughened surface 15 as will be understood.

From the construction described it is evident that the label may be manufactured at a relatively small cost; that it can be conveniently applied to the bottle or package on which it is intended for use, and that its application to the package will be such that the hand will be brought into contact with the roughened surface 15 so as to present a warning to the user that the package contains a drug that should be used with cantion.

I claim 1- A poison label comprising a main body strip of material of a uniform thickness weakened on a continuous line so as to provide relatively, separable upper and lower portions, the back of the upper portion of the strip having an adhesive, a strip of ma terial of uniform thickness secured to the back of the first strip at a point immediately above the weakened line thereof and having an adhesive on its back surface and an abrasive material on its front surface, the latter being disposed flush with the upper portion of the first strip and being normally concealed by that portion of the first strip below said weakened line.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADA. MILBURN.

Witnesses FRANK HAY, NATHANIEL SINGLETARY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

